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 25th day of November, in the year 1648. I here await a happy resurrection and eternal life, Thomas Purefoy, fourth son of George Purefoy, of Wadley, Esquire, and of Anna, daughter of Thomas Glover, of the army. Dry thy tears: it was no untimely fate to which he succumbed who was so ripe for heaven. The man who grieves over a death begrudges the dead their happiness. I have lived long enough, if only innocently enough. Learn from me in that I died, how certain death is; and in that I was young, how uncertain is life. A father's love placed this monument to record his own grief and my name. M.P. 1657

Farewell, thou passer-by, and that thou mayst live when dead, die whilst thou livest.

A portion of the Purefoy family held large possessions in Warwickshire, they built the manor house at Caldecott, their defence of which is an interesting episode in the civil war.

Between the windows in S. Lawrence Chapel is an alabaster tablet, with armorial bearings, (plate iv.)

""In this Chapell lyeth ye bodys of ANNE"

- PUREFOY, who dyed ye 6th of August, 1697,

In the Lady Chapel, near to the screen, a Bath stone tablet—

""In a vault"

- near the North door